Winter Tires in Oshawa

Winter tires in Oshawa are not a cosmetic upgrade. Once the temperature sits around 7°C, all-season rubber stiffens and stopping distances on Simcoe Street, Ritson Road, Harmony Road, King Street, and Taunton Road get longer. A winter tire uses a softer compound and a tread that bites snow and slush instead of polishing it.

Oshawa is the next city east. Simcoe, King, Ritson, Harmony, and Taunton are the usual routes, and Dundas Street connects Oshawa to the Whitby shop in a few minutes. The 401 through Oshawa ices early, and residential streets north of King hold snow after the main roads are clear.

If you drive from north Oshawa, the Taunton hill and the Stevenson / Harmony corridor are where a summer tire or a tired all-season shows itself. Bring the car to 411 Drives on Dundas Street East and leave with winters mounted, balanced, and torqued.

411 Drives sells and installs winter tires for daily drivers, trucks, SUVs, and European cars. Many Ontario insurers also ask for a winter tire discount form — we install the tires, and your insurer sets the discount. We do not promise a dollar amount. We put the right rubber on the car.

Look for the three-peak mountain snowflake on the sidewall. That mark is the winter tire. An all-season with a little snow pictured on the label is not the same thing, and it is not what you want on Simcoe Street, Ritson Road, Harmony Road, King Street, and Taunton Road in January.